Twitter and Facebook Pausing, Not Plunging

Social media stocks may stall following Twitter's IPO, but history suggests their ascent can resume.

As with Facebook before it, the recent introduction of Twitter as a publicly traded stock was thought by many to be the end of the road for the social media phenomenon. History, however, paints a slightly different picture.

It looks as if Twitter (ticker: TWTR) marked the end of the current rally, but do not look for a bear market just yet. It took social media several months to stabilize after Facebook's notorious 2012 debut before...